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Introducing Guest Blogger Deborah Post

Today, we welcome Deborah W. Post (pictured) Picture1to the blog for a brief guest stint.

Deborah is Professor of Law Emerita at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law.  She graduated cum laude from Hofstra University with a major in Anthropology. She took a job first as an editorial assistant and then as a teaching assistant to Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, before attending Harvard Law School. She began her legal career working in the corporate section of a law firm in Houston, Texas. She left practice for a teaching position at the University of Houston Law School and moved to New York to Touro Law Center in 1987. In the academic year 1994-95 she was a visiting professor at Syracuse Law School. In 2000 she was Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePaul Law School. Professor Post has written extensively in her four areas of expertise: contracts, business associations, legal education, and critical race theory. She seeks to apply an anthropologist’s sensibiliies and methodologies to the study of law.

Professor Post is the author of a book on legal education, Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law and the Politics of Teaching, written with a colleague, Louise Harmon and published by New York University Press, and a contracts casebook called Contracting Law with co-authors Amy Kastely, Nancy Ota, and Deborah Zalesne.

We are delighted to have Deborah with us!